Six novel gonadotropin-releasing hormones are encoded as triplets on each of two genes in the protochordate, Ciona intestinalis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1907-1919

  Adams, Bruce A ^a   Tello, Javier A ^a   Erchegyi, Judit ^b   Warby, Carol ^a   Hong, Doley J ^c   Akinsanya, Karen O ^c   Mackie, George O ^a   Vale, Wylie ^b   Rivier, Jean E ^b   Sherwood, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c Ferring Pharmaceuticals AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CI GNRH1 GENE; CI GNRH2 GENE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GAMETE; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SILICO ANALYSIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAIL; UROCHORDATA; AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CROSS REACTION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CROSS REACTIONS; GERM CELLS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0038748052     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-0216     Document Type: Article

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